The first iPhone didn't have copy/paste.<p>X still doesn't have functional search.<p>What are other great examples of hardware or software products that succeeded despite missing seemingly "table stakes" features at first / for a while?<p>Inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42257324
Early LLMS just make shit up and don't double check<p>Early Facebook had no provision for sharing different things with different people<p>Early HTML had (and current HTML still has) hyperlinks to nowhere<p>Early Oracle would occasionally lose your data<p>Early Macs and Windows* lacked preemptive multiprocessing<p>Early Unix made no provision to keep a process from overwriting its own code<p>Early business computers didn't process lowercase alphabetics; early scientific computers didn't process alphabetics at all.<p>Early desk calculators would just go into an infinite loop if you were foolish enough to divide by 0<p>Early telephone calls had to be manually routed<p>Early steam engines were only economically feasible because the mines they were pumping out were <i>coal</i> mines<p>Early saddles didn't have stirrups<p>Early alphabets didn't have vowels<p>etc, etc<p>* there was even folk wisdom at the time that any sub-3.0 microsoft product was bound to be woefully lacking in at least one area